July 22, 2010

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• learn new vocabulary.
• learn to analyze, evaluate, and respond to drama.
• show understanding of verb usage and elements of drama.

Homework:

• Scene Summaries
• Essay response to the article (on our web page).
• The teacher is checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:

• Checking homework today:
  • See the list on the white board.
• Summer School Planner (Due Each Friday)
  • summer school planner 2010.pdf

Agenda

• Clear your desk.
• Silently take your quiz, then begin your next packet.

• Give students time to Re-read the article and make connections with the text.(second reading)
  • Make Connections to the text in the margins
    • Have the students make 7 connections to the text
    • Explain/demonstrate how they will do this
• Use your scanned vocabulary to help you understand.

• Turn to a person next to you and share two connections you made to the text.
• Choose 5 or 6 students to share a connection or two with the class.

• Review Nominative, Objective, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Practice
    • The Three Cases of Pronouns
    • Using Nominative and Objective Case Pronouns
    • Using Possessive Case Pronouns

• Read along with the CD.
• Watch/read along with video.
• Stop after each scene to give students time to do their scene summaries.

• Give students 20 minutes to begin their dialectical journal.
• The journal entries will be recorded in notebooks first, then typed or neatly written for the final version (see student samples).

• Take quizzes.
• Add your response to the prompt (Due Monday)
• Add to your web page.
• Begin/complete Vocabulary Packet (homework)